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“MSCHF intended to comment on the absurdity of the collaboration culture practiced by some brands, and about the perniciousness of intolerance,” Mr. Bernstein said in an emailed statement.

From Washington Times • Apr. 9, 2021

Bremmer said that the criticism of Buttigieg really just “shows perniciousness in an attempt to smear the guy”.

From The Guardian • Jan. 27, 2020

There was something about being rendered invisible and the perniciousness of the systems that render too many people invisible in our society that has informed how I think about our work here at Ford.

From New York Times • Sep. 26, 2019

But the perniciousness of poverty lies, in part, in the decisions it forces people to make.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 4, 2017

How does it come about that, in affirming the perniciousness of the poet's passionate temperament, the man of the street, the philosopher, and the puritan are for the nonce in agreement?

From The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years by Atkins, Elizabeth